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> Isn't the US opiod crisis (not heroin specifically) massively driven by the fact that it is fairly easy to get lavish subscription on legal pain killers?

No. You can get lavish amounts of food and yet not every country is filled with obese people. Maybe life is a little more complicated than a one liner.

> but they still OD, and that's still a drug problem.

People burn themselves with kettles, that's still a kettle problem.

So, what?

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I am not sure I follow. Obesity is much, much more prevalent in countries where food (and unhealthy food) is widely and cheaply available. Governments engage in "prohibition" of specific foods all the time, and I find that mostly commendable.

> People burn themselves with kettles, that's still a kettle problem.

> So, what?

Soo I demand that my government thinks about this problem and regulates it, which indeed it does. I would guess that an average Western country has north of fifty regulations directly related to burn hazards of household appliances.

So yes, these are indeed very good examples of government regulation preventing hurt, pain and death.

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